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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

The Empowered Buisness

QUESTION 1: What is your BHAG? BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” The best definition that I seen is that a BHAG is a statement of strategic intent. Starbuck’s BHAG is to overtake Coke as the world’s leading brand. QUESTION 2: For what purpose ….?

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Finding Your Bigness Balance: Seven Ways to Properly Set the Size.

Kevin Eikenberry

Worry not, the last point might be the most helpful of all… Your Sizing Tool Your answer to these six questions may still leave you saying, “yes, but. These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. By using these tools you are on the way to that success!

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 3

Strategy Driven

With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. If you are ready to stop playing victim to the times, Front Line Heroes will arm you with the tools you need to achieve sustainable business growth.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 1

Strategy Driven

With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. If you are ready to stop playing victim to the times, Front Line Heroes will arm you with the tools you need to achieve sustainable business growth.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 2

Strategy Driven

With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. If you are ready to stop playing victim to the times, Front Line Heroes will arm you with the tools you need to achieve sustainable business growth.

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Creating Teams

Strategy Driven

With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. If you are ready to stop playing victim to the times, Front Line Heroes will arm you with the tools you need to achieve sustainable business growth.

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Stop Searching for That Elusive Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

The tools were crude and, frankly, the individual technical and statistical expertise of the teams was limited. Limited ambition did a better job attracting credibility and support than BHAGs. The resulting insights completely changed the internal dialogues between sales, customer support, maintenance engineering.

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